Principal Software Engineer, Payments

The Principal Software Engineer, Payments, serves as a strategic technical leader driving the design, architecture, and scalability of Turo's global payment systems. This role blends deep technical expertise with strong cross-functional influence, partnering closely with product, accounting, finance, and legal teams to ensure compliance, accuracy, and operational excellence across all payment flows. The ideal candidate is an expert in building resilient, secure, and high-volume payment platforms, capable of guiding architectural decisions and mentoring senior engineers to deliver long-term solutions. As a trusted advisor to leadership, this individual shapes the technical vision for Payments, fostering collaboration, innovation, and alignment with Turo's business goals.

Learn more about our Engineering team here:

• Breaks down complex projects and independently designs and implements successful long-term solutions.

• Evaluates technical designs for high-impact projects and advises teams to improve execution. 

• Collaborates across teams and disciplines to solve problems and resolve technical debates.

• Stays aware of changes to the company to anticipate and prevent obstacles from hindering team performance. 

• Mentors other senior and staff engineers and partners with managers on strategy, collaboration, influence, execution, and other aspects of leadership. 

• Participates in hiring; partnering with recruiters to align on candidate profiles, guiding and filling open engineering positions to improve efficiency in hiring pipelines.

• Expected to possess deep technical domain knowledge of Turo, including DevOps adoption, to understand Turo's infrastructure, system architecture, and build and deployment environments such that they can address critical issues in a timely fashion.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Demonstrates negotiation skills and patience when collaborating with other senior leaders, ensuring progress and setting an example for others. 

• Is considered an expert by peers and is recognized for high quality and quantity of contributions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong leadership skills.

• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.

• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.

• Demonstrates Turo's values through work product and within day to day team interactions.

Education and Experience:

• Has a track record of influencing and delivering projects with organizational impact and priority.

• Bachelor's degree and a combination of 10 years of relevant industry or academic experience. 

The SF base salary target range for this full-time position is $238,000-$297,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in San Francisco, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your work location during the hiring process. 

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Turo offers.

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• Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees

• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)

• Retirement employer match

• Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development

• Turo host matching program

• Turo travel credit

• Cell phone and internet stipend

• Paid time off to relax and recharge

• Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave

• For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world's largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us  Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

Turo is the world's largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you're going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.

Discover Turo at , the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes.  

Read more about the Turo culture according to Turo CEO, Andre Haddad.

Turo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program.  Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.  We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.  

Turo will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable.  

We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position, or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing